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Easily digestible tech news....Re:https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161207/17051436222/rep-marsha-blackburn-says-internet-service-providers-have-obligation-to-censor-fake-news.shtml#c253
Fri, 9 Dec 2016 07:39:50 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161207/17051436222/rep-marsha-blackburn-says-internet-service-providers-have-obligation-to-censor-fake-news.shtml#c253If this passes hopefully the unintended side effect will be a much more peaceful news stream now that the politicians are gone!]]>What is the story?https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161207/17051436222/rep-marsha-blackburn-says-internet-service-providers-have-obligation-to-censor-fake-news.shtml#c232
Fri, 9 Dec 2016 07:38:50 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161207/17051436222/rep-marsha-blackburn-says-internet-service-providers-have-obligation-to-censor-fake-news.shtml#c232Oh, nvm, I guess that the new filter is already in place.

The compare to trademark is written right on the bottle, and yet my wife has been buying products like these for her hair for decades. It has already been found to be legal.

So he could call it "Jupiter Hell compare to Doom" and he would be legally perfectly in the clear.]]>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161207/17051436222/rep-marsha-blackburn-says-internet-service-providers-have-obligation-to-censor-fake-news.shtml#c167
Fri, 9 Dec 2016 07:27:18 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161207/17051436222/rep-marsha-blackburn-says-internet-service-providers-have-obligation-to-censor-fake-news.shtml#c167Re: Re:https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161207/17051436222/rep-marsha-blackburn-says-internet-service-providers-have-obligation-to-censor-fake-news.shtml#c164
Fri, 9 Dec 2016 07:20:22 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161207/17051436222/rep-marsha-blackburn-says-internet-service-providers-have-obligation-to-censor-fake-news.shtml#c164In fact Marsha is standard par for the course. She is of course "correct" that the internet should not be "regulated" but fails to understand that without government intervention of some kind that regulation still comes, just from the ISP's instead where the Regulations just mean... give us more money if you want to do that on the internet or give us even more money if you want to do THAT on the internet. No, it costs us nothing regardless of what you do, but you have to give us more to do it!

And when you combine the fact that ISP are also content producers you get into anti-trust territory and then everyone just ignores it like it does not exist.]]>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161207/11265836221/mark-cuban-falsely-tells-congress-ats-latest-mega-merger-will-be-really-wonderful-consumers.shtml#c242
Fri, 9 Dec 2016 07:17:51 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161207/11265836221/mark-cuban-falsely-tells-congress-ats-latest-mega-merger-will-be-really-wonderful-consumers.shtml#c242

If a telecom that owns distribution has no chance of failing, what happened with go90?

Competition.

And as far as algorithmicly driven news and it's impact , check out the election .

How will telecom mergers prevent this?

I get too many pineapples have hit you on the head over the years. But it doesn't change the fact that the power is with apple Google and Facebook.

The first two can keep any telecom regardless of size out of the app store or hard to find.

Yes, and with the FCC about to gut net neutrality, telecoms can make Netflix unusable.

Your argument isn't saying what you think it is. You're saying that online media are controlled by a few huge, disproportionately powerful companies that have too much control over what content people have access to. So far so good.

But then, bafflingly, you are arguing that the solution to this problem is more mergers, bigger companies, and less competition.

This is the equivalent of being trapped in a hole and saying that the only way to get out is a bigger shovel.

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Fri, 9 Dec 2016 07:16:48 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20050525/0035231.shtml#c18452blackhatcreator1234@gmail.com who helped me fix my credit and upgraded my sister's school grades...i also referred him to a friend who he helped hack into her husband's whatsapp..now i know hackers are real and i promised to spread the word.. i don't know what doubt you might have but trust me BLACKHATCREATOR1234@GMAIL.COM is the right contact for any hacking issues.. credit card and bank hacks inclusive..i am happy i know a trustworthy hacker..he is very confidential so gloria referred you... give it a trial and be amazed..]]>Bon Appetithttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161207/17051436222/rep-marsha-blackburn-says-internet-service-providers-have-obligation-to-censor-fake-news.shtml#c149
Fri, 9 Dec 2016 07:12:06 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161207/17051436222/rep-marsha-blackburn-says-internet-service-providers-have-obligation-to-censor-fake-news.shtml#c149She ate a healthy breakfast full of cognitive dissonance, and I abhor 'regulation'. I will be happy to see the FCC fall, but I still would like one of those "federal bureaucrats" to intervene and classify ISP's as Title II and outlaw all forms of network traffic manipulation and monitoring with only the exception of the most basic of QoS.]]>Sadly, they have not done much...https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161208/16481136227/pirates-trying-to-form-new-icelandic-government.shtml#c93
Fri, 9 Dec 2016 07:11:25 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161208/16481136227/pirates-trying-to-form-new-icelandic-government.shtml#c93Re: &quot;Become an informer ... Fabulous prizes to be won&quot;https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161206/16441736214/court-tells-family-services-worker-i-dont-approve-your-lifestyle-isnt-valid-warrant-exception.shtml#c398
Fri, 9 Dec 2016 07:08:34 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161206/16441736214/court-tells-family-services-worker-i-dont-approve-your-lifestyle-isnt-valid-warrant-exception.shtml#c398Re: Re:https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161207/11265836221/mark-cuban-falsely-tells-congress-ats-latest-mega-merger-will-be-really-wonderful-consumers.shtml#c230
Fri, 9 Dec 2016 07:07:55 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161207/11265836221/mark-cuban-falsely-tells-congress-ats-latest-mega-merger-will-be-really-wonderful-consumers.shtml#c230But even so, the "AL" in "HAL 9000" is short for "algorithmic".]]>Re: Re: Re: this is a serious problem....https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161206/16441736214/court-tells-family-services-worker-i-dont-approve-your-lifestyle-isnt-valid-warrant-exception.shtml#c373
Fri, 9 Dec 2016 07:05:23 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161206/16441736214/court-tells-family-services-worker-i-dont-approve-your-lifestyle-isnt-valid-warrant-exception.shtml#c373https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161207/17051436222/rep-marsha-blackburn-says-internet-service-providers-have-obligation-to-censor-fake-news.shtml#c124
Fri, 9 Dec 2016 07:05:20 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161207/17051436222/rep-marsha-blackburn-says-internet-service-providers-have-obligation-to-censor-fake-news.shtml#c124If Marsha and Hillary are so concerned about fake news and all the other shit that goes on in the elections and so concerned about a fair race lets talk about the DNC sabotaging Bernie Sanders campaign and repeatedly lying about the fact when Sanders was complaining about just that, lets talk about all the dirt digging that both Trump and Clinton served up about one another.

Should we bring up all the misleading ads that played out not only in the POTUS race but in congressional and state seat riding's or what about all the supposed coalition groups that pop up every fucking election and are used as fronts to do the dirty work that the candidates don't want the blood on their hands from.

Honestly the hypocritical pandering about fake news isn't the only B.S. being touted here. Elections have always been a dirty cesspool to get into office and to stay there and nothing seems to be off limits when it comes to dirty tactics. Clinton and Trump had their dirty laundry aired as did others before them and other will well after them because it is win at all cost, and it has been that way for decades.

All the money that is raised to get someone into the running, all the money that is raised to support them in the race is way way more than the candidate will ever make in salary, so we all know that these candidates win or lose are going to owe people for supporting them, are going to owe companies for backing them.

The citizens are pawns in the election game candidates will wax on and on about how they want to make things better for the citizens and the government and to make the country better, but do they really? No, it's lip service to get in the door and then the citizens are long forgotten except the occasional pet pork barrel project to pacify the voters and make it look like their elected representative did something for their betterment, all while serving those that backed them and taking as much money as they can thru PAC's and any other way legally possible while bending over backwards to do their backers bidding at the expense of the taxpayer.]]>Re: What's in it for Mark Cubanhttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161207/11265836221/mark-cuban-falsely-tells-congress-ats-latest-mega-merger-will-be-really-wonderful-consumers.shtml#c229
Fri, 9 Dec 2016 07:04:39 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161207/11265836221/mark-cuban-falsely-tells-congress-ats-latest-mega-merger-will-be-really-wonderful-consumers.shtml#c229Re: Re: Re: this is a serious problem....https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161206/16441736214/court-tells-family-services-worker-i-dont-approve-your-lifestyle-isnt-valid-warrant-exception.shtml#c348
Fri, 9 Dec 2016 07:04:22 PSThttps://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161206/16441736214/court-tells-family-services-worker-i-dont-approve-your-lifestyle-isnt-valid-warrant-exception.shtml#c348